The talk at Blue #13 continues, but the action is heating up as well.
A player from early position opened to 400 and Jonathan Aguiar made the call. The flop came down and the original raiser led for 400. Aguiar raised to 1,100 and his opponent reraised all in with Aguiar making a quick call. Aguiar turned over , but his opponent tabled for a flopped set.
The board ran out and Aguiar rivered a set of kings for the near double.
Kenna James called me over to his table for what was shaping up to be a big hand. A player had opened to 450 from early position and received three callers and Nick Jivkov also called in the small blind. Matt Damadeo raised all in for 2550 and received three callers before it came back to Jivkov.
Jivkov now pushed all in for 7,375 and two of the players called for less. Jivkov had , Damadeo had and their opponents had and , respectively.
The flop was and Damadeo was looking good to quadruple up. The turn was the 9s and Jivkov was looking for a heart to scoop the whole thing. The river was the however and Damadeo took the main pot, while Jivkov was left with a nice side pot, while eliminating two opponents
The action was on Belgium's Christophe De Meulder in middle position and he set the price to play at 725 on the flop. Scott Eskenazi, on the button, was De Meulder's sole opponent and he called.
The turn brought the into play and De Meulder announced pot, but before he could get his chips into the middle, Eskenazi had called all-in.
De Meulder: for the club flush draw.
Eskenazi: for two pair.
After burning a card, the dealer placed the onto the river and Eskenazi doubled to 9,100, while De Meulder plummets to a still respectable 8,375.
With over $2.2 million in live tournament winnings, including a win this April in a WSOP Circuit event in Chester, Pa., Kyle Bowker has long been one of the most successful poker players on the circuit.
Bowker has been moved to the same table as former spelling bee champion Pratyush Buddiga and has 7,500 chips in his stack.
One table in front of Bowker is Will "The Thrill" Failla, a man with more than $4.3 million in live winnings. It hasn't gone well for Failla so far today as his stack has dwindled down to around the 1,650 mark.
Finally, we noticed that Dwight Pilgrim is no longer in his seat, leading us to believe that he has busted from the tournament. Pilgrim shot to fame in 2009 when he won the $5,000 buy-in WSOP Circuit Championship event for over $125,000, and then in 2010 he won the World Poker Tour Borgata Main Event for $733,802. Sadly for Pilgrim, his wait for a bracelet continues.
Two-time WSOP bracelet winner Eric Froehlich won't be adding a third piece of poker jewelery to his wrist in this event. Froehlich busted during level five:
British bracelet winner John Kabbaj opened to 525 from under the gun and was called by Jonathan Little in the next seat. Little, in the midst of an upper arm massage, was the only caller so it was heads-up to the flop.
Both players seemed disinterest by the flop and checked. Kabbaj then check-called an 800 bet on the turn, but gave up and folded to a 1,100 bet on the river.
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Alex Bolotin is no longer competing for honors in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em event judging by the fact his seat is empty and the only thing on the table space in front of that seat is an discarded coffee cup.
Although Bolotin will be disappointed with his exit, he's still on cloud nine after winning his first bracelet a couple of days ago in the shooutout event.
and the original raiser led for 400. Aguiar raised to 1,100 and his opponent reraised all in with Aguiar making a quick call. Aguiar turned over 
, but his opponent tabled 
for a flopped set.
and Aguiar rivered a set of kings for the near double.
, Damadeo had 
and their opponents had 
, respectively.
flop. Scott Eskenazi, on the button, was De Meulder's sole opponent and he called.
into play and De Meulder announced pot, but before he could get his chips into the middle, Eskenazi had called all-in.
for the club flush draw.
onto the river and Eskenazi doubled to 9,100, while De Meulder plummets to a still respectable 8,375.
flop.
turn, but gave up and folded to a 1,100 bet on the 
river.
